With Friends Like This...

A lot of politicians spent time in recent years with Florida's former prison chief Jim Crosby and his close lieutenant Allen Clark, two politically active state employees who also happened to have been indicted Wednesday by federal prosecutors on charges they took kickbacks from a prison vendor.

Look for more photos like this one, sent to the Buzz anonymously, to surface on the way to Election Day. That's U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Sarasota, on the left, next to Clark. Crosby is on the far right. We believe the third man is Harris' husband, but can't be sure.

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